Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Upmc has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned among 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing that the pending portfolio is distributed across separate examination settings.
LEE, JAE W is the identified busiest examiner, with the same pending volume attributed to that examiner as to each individual assignment in the profile. The data therefore does not identify a concentrated examiner-specific bottleneck.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, JAE W | 1 | 65.6% | +38.5% |
| EISENBERG, REBECCA E | 1 | 81.2% | +12.0% |
| HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1 | 50.6% | +62.3% |
| HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 1 | 78.0% | +15.5% |
| VO, TU A | 1 | 61.0% | +58.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792908 | METHODS OF DETECTING AND TREATING CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS | LEE, JAE W | — |
| 18729408 | EXTERNAL SUTURELESS FIXATION DEVICE FOR ELEMENTS WHICH EXTEND INTO THE BODY | EISENBERG, REBECCA E | — |
| 18634133 | WEARABLE CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY MEASUREMENT DEVICES, SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | — |
| 18579199 | ENDOTRACHEAL TUBES WITH BAFFLES | VO, TU A | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792908 | METHODS OF DETECTING AND TREATING CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS | LEE, JAE W | — |
| 18729408 | EXTERNAL SUTURELESS FIXATION DEVICE FOR ELEMENTS WHICH EXTEND INTO THE BODY | EISENBERG, REBECCA E | — |
| 18719345 | BIOABSORBABLE METALLIC ALLOY COILS COATED WITH A POLYURETHANE FOR TREATING INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS (IAS) AND RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSMS (RAAS) | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | — |
| 18634133 | WEARABLE CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY MEASUREMENT DEVICES, SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | — |
| 18579199 | ENDOTRACHEAL TUBES WITH BAFFLES | VO, TU A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1656 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18792908 | METHODS OF DETECTING AND TREATING CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS | LEE, JAE W | 1656 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18729408 | EXTERNAL SUTURELESS FIXATION DEVICE FOR ELEMENTS WHICH EXTEND INTO THE BODY | EISENBERG, REBECCA E | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18719345 | BIOABSORBABLE METALLIC ALLOY COILS COATED WITH A POLYURETHANE FOR TREATING INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS (IAS) AND RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSMS (RAAS) | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18634133 | WEARABLE CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY MEASUREMENT DEVICES, SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18579199 | ENDOTRACHEAL TUBES WITH BAFFLES | VO, TU A | 3785 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUpmc has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Jae W Lee has the most, with 1 of Upmc's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
